Elling Olsson Walbøe (26 May 1763 – 13 December 1831) was a Norwegian farmer, builder, and member of the

Norwegian Constituent Assembly The Norwegian Constituent Assembly ( or ) is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised the dissolution of the union with Denmark. The meetings took place at the Eidsvoll Manor in th ...

. Walbøe was born at the Valbø farm in Ørskog parish in

Romsdalen Romsdalen is a valley in the western part of Norway. The long valley runs from the Romsdalsfjorden through Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county and into Lesja Municipality in Innlandet county. It is the valley of the Rauma (river), Rau ...

county, Norway. Later he bought the Nedre-Lande farm in the same parish. Walbøe was the builder of at least three

octagonal churches In geometry, an octagon () is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon. A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t is a hex ...

: Leikanger Church in Møre og Romsdal and Innvik Church in

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...

, both of which still exist, as well as Hareid Church in Møre og Romsdal, which was demolished during the 1870s. From 1799 to 1827, Walbøe served as a member of the Conciliation Commission (''forlikskommissær'') which mediated private disputes at Ørskog in

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...

. Together with Hilmar Meincke Krohg and

Jens Stub Jens Stub (3 March 1764 – 24 October 1819) was a Norway, Norwegian priest and politician. He was vicar on the island of Veøya and served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly at Eidsvoll Verk, Eidsvoll in 1814. Biograp ...

, he represented Romsdals amt at the

at Eidsvoll Manor in 1814. At the National Assembly he was primarily engaged in matters affecting the interests of farmers. In company with other farmers, he proposed to sell church-owned property in order to generate capital to establish a Norwegian Central Bank. He also supported a proposal to reintroduce a constitutional inheritance law. Valbo stood with the Union party (''Unionspartiet''), as did his fellow representative, Jens Stub.

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1763 births 1831 deaths People from Møre og Romsdal Norwegian farmers Fathers of the Constitution of Norway Norwegian people of Swedish descent Members of the Storting 1814 {{Norway-politician-1760s-stub